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Town in Kymenlaakso, Finland
Photo: Pitkäkaula, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Hamina is a town in Kymenlaakso, in the extreme southeast of Finland.
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The town plan of Hamina is quite unique, with the town hall as the middle point the streets of the city are either encircling it or leading towards it.
Raatihuone
The beautiful yellow building right in the "epicenter" of the city, ie. the mid-point of the historical circular city plan, still houses the city government.
The location of the "flag park" is visible from far, as its centerpiece is the tallest flagpole in Europe (100 m tall) with a huge Finnish flag. It's surrounded by normal-sized flagpoles with flags of EU countries.
Hundreds of islands and islets in the Baltic Sea outer archipelago in front of Kotka and Hamina. See also Boating in Finland#Gulf of Finland National Park.
Basic lunch place in the port, different dishes each day.
Buffet restaurant with Chinese food and sushi.
Cozy "old fashioned" café and bakery in the basement of an old wooden building. They have cakes, pastries and coffee, and during the warm months of the year home-made ice tea. One of the rooms is a bakery shop where you can buy their products to go.
Hotel adjacent to the public indoor swimming pool area of the city, there is also an outdoor swimming area and a gym. The rooms have the amenities you'd expect from a mid-range hotel in a first world country. There's also a restaurant and a conference area.
Camping area next to a sand beach (pitkäthiekat translates to "long sands") with cottages, and places for tents, RVs and trailers.
Kauppatori
Food products, flowers, second-hand goods... the selection varies by the day. There's also a small stage with occasional music performances during the summer.
The closest thing to a department store or shopping mall in Hamina, this is a fish shop that also has a large range of other food products. Foods other than fish and seafood is packaged or canned (don't expect fresh fruit or bread). It was established to cater to customers from nearby Russia, wherefore it seems rather "under-visited" after COVID and the war in Ukraine with subsequent limitations on allowing in Russians into the EU - it's still open though.
By bus
Hamina has direct buses from Helsinki and Lappeenranta. Local bus line 1 connects Hamina with Kotka.
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